80 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



District of Gore 1 Richard Beasley, Esq. J. P. 



J Mr. William Chisholm. 



London District Mr. Calvin Martin. 



Western do Mr. Roderick Drake. 



Midland District ] Daniel Washburn, Esq. 



Mr. Davis Hawley. 



Mr. Paul Peterson. 



Mr. Thomas Coleman, Esq. 



District of Newcastle Mr. Robert J. Kerr. 



Johnstown District Mr. Nathan Hicok 



Ottawa do 



Home do 



(Gourlay addressed the Convention at their request but was not a member.) 



Richard Beasley J. P. in the Chair. 

 William J. Kerr Secretary and 

 Daniel Washburn Assistant Secretary. 



Board of Management met at Ancaster, July 21. 1818; and drew up a Petition 

 to the Prince Regent. 



Present Richard Beasley, 

 William Kerr, 

 William Chisholm, 

 John Clark, 

 George Hamilton 

 and Roderick Drake. 

 The Board of "Permanent Committee" met again at St. Catharines, August 1, 

 1818; had the Petition engrossed, signed and ordered to be transmitted to England. 

 Present Richard Beasley, 

 George Hamilton 

 Roderick Drake 

 William Kerr 

 and John Clark. 

 It will be seen that the eastern part of the Province which had been canvassed 

 by Gourlay himself was poorly represented. 



Some of the persons named in the parody may be more particularly referred to 

 here. 



Barnabas Bidwell, the father of the more celebrated Marshall Spring Bidwell, 

 had been guilty of defalcations as Treasurer of the County of Berkshire in Massa- 

 chusetts — hence the suggestion that he shojuld be Treasurer and keep out of the 

 United States on his way to England. 



George Hamilton was the founder of the present City of Hamilton; I do not 

 know the occasion of the wreck of his curricle. 



The antics of Amos Ainsley were notorious but I cannot find that he actually 

 ran naked at any time. 



Gourlay had been entrusted in May, 1818, by the Niagara Committee to look 

 after the Midland, Johnstown, Eastern and Ottawa Districts — he had little success 

 and by the time he reached Cobourg on his way west he was clearly in bad odour. 

 Gour. pp. 26 sqq. 



